1. WWW Search Strategies EDTC 3123 Applications of Educational Technology

2. Search Engines & Directories What’s the difference? – With an engine, a web crawler does the finding – With a directory, a human indexes Specialized – http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.ht ml http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.ht ml Kids and Search Strategies – NoodleTools http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest – Tekmom http://www.tekmom.com/search

3. What’s a blog? Short for “weblog” November Learning Communities – http://nlcommunities.com/communities http://nlcommunities.com/communities Mrs. Trudeau’s classroom – http://blog109.org/communities/atrudeau/defaul t.aspx http://blog109.org/communities/atrudeau/defaul t.aspx “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd – http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees

4. Using Quotation Marks Go to http://teoma.comhttp://teoma.com Search for a phrase – Example: renewable resources Note the results Search for the same phrase in quotations – Example: “renewable resources” Note the differences in the results

5. Boolean Search Terms AND NOT OR

6. Who Really Owns a Website? http://easywhois.com Try a site: – www.martinlutherking.org www.martinlutherking.org Go to the URL of the group who owns this site

7. URL Extensions.org – organization.com – company.sch – school (outside of US).k12 – most US schools.edu – US higher ed.gov – US government.ac – non-US higher ed.net – network.mil – US military.co – company if paired with country code (.co.uk)

8. Who Links to Your Website? Go to Alta Vista search engine – http://altavista.com http://altavista.com Type in link:http://oksmf.net Who is this website important to?

9. Personal Website Clues Look for a tilde ~ or the % sign or a personal name “jdoe” or the word “user” after the domain name and forward slash

10. Narrowing a Search by Domain Go to Alta Vista (http://altavista.com)http://altavista.com Type host:ac.za Conduct a search that will result only in materials from academies in South Africa For country codes, see http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dict ionary/noframes/nf.domains.html http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dict ionary/noframes/nf.domains.html

11. Find the History of a Website Wayback Machine – http://www.archive.org http://www.archive.org Type in www.harrypotter.comwww.harrypotter.com What has changed over the years?

12. Specific Search I want only US higher education web sites that contain the word turtle http://altavista.com “host:edu + turtle”

13. How Do Websites Make it to the Top? A search engine ranks by how many time the keyword appears in the page (or meta data) – See the page source of a website Google ranks by popularity: how many others are linking to a site and how many clicks

14. Judging Site Content All About Explorers: http://www.allaboutexplorers.com http://www.allaboutexplorers.com California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge: http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.ht ml http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.ht ml Dihydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.orghttp://www.dhmo.org Dog Island Free Forever: http://www.thedogisland.com

15. Judging Site Content Feline Reactions to Bearded Men: http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/ cat.html http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/ cat.html Martin Luther King: http://www.martinlutherking.org http://www.martinlutherking.org The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html Victorian Robots: http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html

16. Create Your Own Search Engine Google Customized Search Engine Ex: http://osuitq.wikispaces.comhttp://osuitq.wikispaces.com

17. Assignments Internet Scavenger Hunt Social Bookmarking Assignment – Ex: http://www.diigo.com/user/pasha77http://www.diigo.com/user/pasha77 – http://www.diigo.com/user/susanstansberry http://www.diigo.com/user/susanstansberry Chapter 7 Quiz For NEXT class: BYOH (headphones)